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Passenger Brings Rails Apps to Apache

Apache fans in the Ruby community were delighted several months ago, when Phusion released Passenger, an Apache module for deploying Rails applications. I have been working with Passenger over the last few weeks, and am pleased to report that the module is extremely easy to install, use, and configure. Passenger has succeeded in bringing me back into the world of Apache after several years of wandering in the HTTP server desert.



Microsoft Joins the ASF: Can They Be Trusted?

Microsoft announced on Friday that it would be joining the Apache Software Foundation, one of the leading organizations in the open-source world. Microsoft became a platinum sponsor of the ASF, which costs $100,000/year and is the highest level of sponsorship that the foundation offers. In a blog posting announcing the sponsorship, Sam Ramji, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy and head of its open source software lab, indicated that this demonstrates Microsoft's interest in working along with Apache on many projects. At the same time, he wrote that this does not mean Microsoft is turning its back on proprietary software, including its IIS Web server.



SpamAssassin: Fighting the War on Spam

Frustrated by spam? SpamAssassin is one of the most comprehensive tools that you can use to fight it off. Its secret is the large and varied tests that it runs on incoming e-mail messages, as well as its flexible configuration. SpamAssassin won't stop all spam, but it will significantly reduce it.


Lucene: The Open Source Search Engine

If you want to search for a piece of text on the Web, you probably turn to Google or a similar search engine. But how can you integrate search into your Web site?

Lucene is a high-quality Apache-sponsored engine for indexing and searching documents. While that would be enough for most people, a host of add-ons and complementary open source products make Lucene an even better choice when looking for a search engine.



Lots to See at the Apache Foundation's European Conference

The Apache Sofware Foundation's 2008 conference in Europe is taking place this week, with formal sessions starting today. In the coming days, I'll describe several ASF-sponsored projects that are interesting and useful, which offer useful functionality and a general promise of quality.

What does the ASF do, and what sorts of programs are discussed at the conference?



Google Now Hosts Open Source Libraries

Are you using Ajax in your web application? If so, then you're probably using an open source JavaScript library, as well. Google announced earlier today that several popular JavaScript libraries, including Prototype and Dojo, will be freely available for web applications to incorporate in their HTML pages. By using Google's Ajax API, applications will be able to benefit from Google's fast content delivery network, as well as from the fact that browsers cache JavaScript files. So if any other application uses Google's copy of Prototype, your application will be able to used the cached version, saving time and bandwidth.


Yahoo Tries to Become the Cool Kid -- By Being More Open

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its intention to purchase Yahoo for $44 billion in cash and stock. Now, Yahoo has announced its intention to become a fully open, platformizable company, letting developers mix and match its services and data in new and different ways. How much of this is designed to make Yahoo more profitable, and how much is simply a reaction to Microsoft's acquisition attempt? Will openness bring Yahoo more revenues, or simply make it a cooler company in developers' eyes?


Summer Is Almost Here, and So Is the Summer of Code

This year, April 1st was supposed to mark another serious day at Google, namely the deadline for student applications to the Summer of Code. But this turned out to be another joke of sorts; Google has extended the deadline to April 7th, giving students several more days to apply.

Google is well known for their many April Fool's Day jokes. I still remember when Gmail was launched; the notion of 1GB of free e-mail storage space was considered so ridiculous that it had to be a joke. Except, of course, that Gmail was serious. This year, April 1st was supposed to mark another serious day at Google, namely the deadline for student applications to the Summer of Code.


What Does Hadoop Mean to You?

MapReduce is Google's secret weapon: A way of breaking complicated problems apart, and spreading them across many computers. Hadoop is an open source implementation of MapReduce that you can use on your own computers, in the same way.

How does Hadoop work, and how might you best use it? Especially if you were interested in the recent news involving Yahoo and Hadoop, or if you're interested in cloud computing, it's worth finding out.